Here is Cindy Pool’s recipe for coconut cake. She got it from her sister when they were visiting her in Greece over 25 years ago.

A long-held plan to improve the westbound bus stop in Amagansett recently came to fruition when a flat brick surface was installed on Main Street in front of Gansett Green Manor. Two new benches accommodate waiting passengers.

Paola’s, the Italian restaurant taking over the space formerly occupied by EMP Summer House on Pantigo Road in East Hampton, will open by Memorial Day weekend, Stefano Marracino, the owner, said on Friday.

In an effort to provide more affordable housing for year-round residents, the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday introduced a proposal to change minimum lot area requirements for detached affordable accessory structures.

A Queens resident was found on Sunday with 45 grams of marijuana in his car during a traffic stop in Amagansett.

The East Hampton Library will open the fifth annual Tom Twomey Series of conversations on topics of local and national interest with “Bioswales: A New Vision for East Hampton’s Village Green” on Saturday at 6 p.m. Subsequent talks will range from politics to oysters to the cartoonist Charles Addams.

Guild Hall’s Teen Arts Council has organized a cleanup at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett on Saturday and will follow up with a fashion event using repurposed finds on Sunday

Possible gunshots were reported in the vicinity of Maidstone and Susan Streets last Thursday evening around 9:30. Police searched the area but found nothing.

With the arrival of the month of May, for anglers of either the salt or freshwater ilk, it can be difficult to decide what to fish for on any particular day.

A 69-year-old East Hampton man is being held on $50,000 bail after an investigation revealed he had been abusing a girl sexually for more than three years, East Hampton Town police said.

A 56-year-old man with a history of drunken driving was slapped with several charges on Saturday afternoon, including a felony under Leandra’s Law, after East Hampton Town police reported finding him driving while intoxicated in Amagansett with two teenagers in the car.

Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection

School budget votes and board elections take place on Tuesday, with races in five of the eight school districts between Bridgehampton and Montauk. Proposed budgets in all but one, Wainscott, come in under the state-mandated tax cap.

Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, the creative husband and wife behind such television shows as “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Gilmore Girls,” asked the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday for permission to renovate all the structures on their property at 132 Main Street.

A research project to test an alternative bait in Long Island bays could result in almost 100,000 fewer horseshoe crabs harvested, which would significantly bolster the breeding population, the East Hampton Town Trustees were told on Monday.

Residents of the Tuthill Road Association have launched a GoFundMe campaign that they say is necessary to protect the neighborhood’s character and quality of life from activities associated with Duryea’s Lobster Deck, purchased in 2014 by Marc Rowan.

The waters off Havens Beach in Sag Harbor Village contained the highest amount of enterococcus bacteria of any East End bathing beach sampled on May 6 by the Surfrider Foundation.

PSEG Long Island announced this week that it will explore the possibility of building a modernized Long Island Power Authority substation on parkland north of the former Montauk landfill.

The Public Integrity Bureau of the Suffolk County district attorney's office has been notified of apparent electronic eavesdropping at the East Hampton Town Trustees' office in Amagansett, after The Star questioned the trustees on Monday about an audio recording that was apparently made surreptitiously.

Alex Miller was heading home think-ing about dinner on the evening of May 14 when he decided to stop at Stuart’s Seafood Market, an Amagansett fa-vorite. He bought some cedar plank salmon and coleslaw. As an afterthought, he said, “Why don’t you give me a dozen littleneck clams — medium-sized little-necks?”